LA Metro Is Selling 605 Freeway Valley Boulevard Project as Good for Equity, Climate, Active Transportation
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The 605 Freeway/Valley Blvd project isn't among the most destructive widening projects that Metro and Caltrans do, but it's bad.
Update on Possible Richmond-San Rafael Bike Closure
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Sometimes even when advocates win, they can't win. The lane may stay--but the approaches might be closed
America’s Most Toxic Car Ads: Infiniti vs. Cadillac
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When most people think about "family values," they don't usually think about violent driver aggression — unless they've bought into American car culture, that is.
The Parking Reform Network Comes of Age
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“We’re all here because when we look at a new surface parking lot, or see a lot being dug up for an apartment’s underground garage, we understand these are just the surface expressions of a sinister force." -Parking Reform Network founder Tony Jordan, via Bike Portland's Jonathan Maus
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- How reduced parking requirements can increase housing (AARP)
- California rail authorities join forces in CIRCLE: California Rail Corridors Linking Everyone (Trains)
- Parents push for safer routes to school in Montclair (Daily Bulletin)
- California has a huge racial profiling problem (Daily Beast)
- The people who harvest our food suffer from lack of COVID resources, information (KVPR)
- Cargo backlog creates traffic tie-ups on the highways and in neighborhoods (Press Democrat)
- But that’s just masking an economic success story! (Bloomberg)
- California’s wildfire smoke is causing health problems in the eastern US (Washington Post)
- LA City Council votes to solve homelessness by banning it (LA Times)
- Singapore implements problematic rules on bicycle behavior in the name of “safety” (Straits Times)
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Why Painted Bike Lanes are Immoral, in One Video
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Leaving vulnerable road users in this kind of mortal danger is abhorrent and unacceptable.
New ‘Induced Demand’ Calculator Shows Exactly How Much Driving Your City’s Highway Expansion Will Encourage
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A new calculator shows the real impacts of proposed highway expansions in their communities — and the experts behind the project hope that transportation agencies will someday be required to use it, too.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Despite dangers to pedestrians, SD begins project to widen El Cajon Blvd to “solve congestion” (KPBS)
- Correlations seen between growing number of large SUVs and pedestrian deaths (Urban Wire)
- Cities looking for ways to end illegal street racing (LA Times)
- Yup. E-bike deliveries reduce emissions (Fast Company)
- Here’s a city that hasn’t had any cars for over a decade – it works (Vice)
- Ride-share saves neither time, money, NOR the planet (and doesn’t cut congestion either) (LA Times)
- San Diego COASTER to receive $10m in federal funds (Times of San Diego)
- Former CARB deputy Steve Cliff nominated to run federal highway safety agency (Federal News Network)
- CTC approves $2.1 billion for transportation projects statewide (The Daily Independent)
- Pasadena defers action on Caltrans-owned homes (South Pasadena Review)
- Cut water use, said Newsom. Nah, said Californians (SF Chronicle)
- Oakland opens its guaranteed income project (SF Chronicle)
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Metro Plans to Close Loophole that Charges Five-Year-Olds Full Fare
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The proposed revised fare language would simply read: “Children under age 6 may travel free with a fare-paying adult on bus or rail.”
New Bike Lanes Installed on Channel Drive in Pacific Palisades
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New Channel Road bike lanes extend about about 0.2-mile from Mesa Road to Short Street. The facility connects to the beach bike path via one block of new sharrows and an existing pedestrian undercrossing.
Op-Ed: Managing Our Streets Better Can Reduce Inequities In Our Cities
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How can curb pricing make cities safer, greener and more quitable? Sahar Shirazi of Nelson\Nygaard explores.